tRUFA'z 94 323L

[trufa]

hola de argentina!

hola :D, estas en Argentina o en New York como dice ahi?

hi :D, are you on Argentina or in New York as stated there?

[Kris]

hola :D, estas en Argentina o en New York como dice ahi?

hi :D, are you on Argentina or in New York as stated there?

im in new york but from mendoza.

[Turpro]

Don't take this in a bad way but what's so special about the toyota steelies?

[trufa]

Don't take this in a bad way but what's so special about the toyota steelies?

ok ok, sorry that i miss your post and didnt answer it, my bad

there is nothing special about the corolla steelies, its just that my previous car was a corolla so there is some feeling (also my mother drives an 06' Corolla and my father a 93' 4Runner, the Toyota feeling is in the family), i got them very cheap (for my country remember) and the tire-wheel combo with the corolla steel+Yokohama CDrive 185/60R14 is ligther than the mazda steel + pirelli cinturato p4 175/70R13. Thats all

[trufa]

well some progress

the other day i was bored so i went shopping, and find some leather like material (i know
the name in spanish, but no idea in eng). So with that and swingmachine ready, the shifther
and handbrake boot. And they came quite nice. The good thing is that i keep the originals
in case i want to go back.






one thing that i cant understand yet that this car doesent came with rear seatbelts.
So shoping again and new seatbeltsaunque parezca...


all the holes where there, but no seatbelt




âll nice and tucked



after that... i was bored againg and, the new victim was the gauge cluster. The thing was very
hard to read, there werent enough ligth. So i remove it, change all the main bulbs (without that
green thing), clean it, and give the transparant thing a ligth polish.

before

nice touch

after, the pictures dont as good as in person. Its 10 times better


now waiting for the pay check to give him some tinted windows

[trufa]

well... it looks that if aint a GTR or Turbo something, no body coments

anyway MORE PICS!

the muffler had developed a crack and started to sound awful, so a new exaust is instaled









video of the exaust
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvu9il_LAOc

[MazdaNoob]

dude nice work on the shift and hand brake boots .. looks great !

[trufa]

dude nice work on the shift and hand brake boots .. looks great !

thanks, it realy looks much better than the original rubber thing

now... CV Joint, isnt it?

[trufa]

well some more photos, saturday evening and the vibration when braking had a responsable





good thing i have a new one soo this friday i will change it (U$S 37 if you are interested)

now some pics of the exaust (from the outside and daylight)



yhea.. i know my car is dirty

[trufa]

a little update

the tools for this day are:


removing things from the car




but the ones which i cant get out....


were painted in place



Whats beneath the plastic


tons of dirt, i clean it, and i give the windshield a little polish


PAINTING TIME

some newspaper makes a great workbench :D


first coat


i saw this here in CP and i like it


painting the thing i couldnt remove


after 3 coats of paint






Before


After


Before


After



Well that was the plastics deparment, now its time for the wheels

Corolla 14" stelies, i masked all the wheel in place


3 coats of paint later


Nice offset


since i was painting the wheels... it was time for the spare wheel also


any coments?

[trufa]

Results (i clean the car)















any coments?

[worldhazard]

AWESOME turnaound. car looks great with just some lil cleaning and touching up. great job!

[trufa]

AWESOME turnaound. car looks great with just some lil cleaning and touching up. great job!

its incredible, with some love and some paint the car changes a lot, in fact are things that nobody notices, but in the whole package does a great deal

[trufa]

well, you dont have an idea how lucky i am, i bougth from a 2004 Kawasaki ZX636 its ITB's, and only U$S110 (cheaper than fixing the alternator).
This is a long proyect, i still need to decide which MS (I or II, 2.2, 3.0), find a fuel regulator, buy the wideband (innovate LC-1 the only thing i have decided), the MS will run stand alone from the car wiring so im using the "MegaSquirt Wiring Harness", luckly a relative is coming from USA in october and with some luck i can buy all this

[trufa]

little update, since the ass**** crashed my car i havent moved it, but the other day i wanted to take it to spin and he refused to start... yesterday i try to see why

my car in a well know position


the sohc that didnt wanted to start, a quick diagnostic revealed that the fuel pump, wasnt pumping anything


instead of start form, front to back... i started looking in the tank if there was any fuel left


and there was, since i was there i check the mesh in the pickup and it was clean


so... there was fuel, and the pickup works, checked the lines on the bottom of the car, and then i reached the firewall, and to my surprise below the batery there was a filter that i never noticed, took it away and it was cloged

i remove the old/cloged filter and instaled q new one (not the same one, but one that i had lying around)


also changed some hoses


biopsy of the filter, it doesnt look bad, but it was totaly cloged